Eating With Friends

Our Sunday School lesson today was about breaking bread together from Acts. Yep, I think we did plently of that this weekend.

Friday I joined Gary and a bunch of IT people for lunch at my favorite place, Ton's. And somebody else paid. Yay!

Then Saturday our Dinner For Eight group from church got togther for lunch for a bona fide Brazillian meal called feijoada. The reason it was so authentic is because Helen and Marj's (monolingual) Brazillian friend was visiting and she did the cooking. The meal was great, and then it was followed up with homemade Brazilian flan.



Then Saturday evening we got invited to join friends from our old church to celebrate their anniversaries, all of which are this month. We went to Adelmo's, a nice place, but in general, out of our price range. To handle it we shared an entree and drank water, and it still cost $28! Well, nevermind. It wasn't our anniversary!

After church today we broke some more bread with friends, this time at Wendy's, more in our price range. The church singles' group ate there too.

In other news, you might have seen Rachel's blog to see the damage to her car. We ended up ordering a used door glass from somewhere in Kansas, which arrived in less than 24 hours, then Rachel arranged to have a local shop install it. So now she's got a drivable car again.

Doro's time with us is coming to a close. She leaves Wednesday afternoon. She is trying to get her last few times of talking with friends and swimming in the pool squeezed in between studying for the TOEFL. She has to take that test right after getting back to Germany as a requirement for getting into the college program that she wants.

My mom apparently made it to Michigan on Wednesday, since I didn't hear otherwise. And speaking of relatives coming to visit, Andrew and Laura are scheduled to be here September 8-13. They won't be here long, but we did see them recently. They will spend more time in the DR because one of Laura's close friends is getting married.